Here you'll find Greenpeace campaign fact sheets on the pirate fishery, the Southern Ocean ecosystem at stake, the key international organization charged with conserving the Southern Ocean, and the wider problem of overfishing.
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Pirate Plunder the Southern Ocean
(Greenpeace International)
AN ARMADA OF PIRATE FISHING VESSELS has invaded the Southern Ocean
to poach tens of thousands of tons of a fish species known as the Patagonian
Toothfish.
Patagonian Toothfish
(Greenpeace International)
OF THE 20,000 KNOWN SPECIES of fish in the world, only 120 live in the
Southern Oceans. Throughout the past 40 million years they have adapted
to the freezing conditions by developing a special 'anti-freeze' component
in their body fluids......
CCAMLR - The Convention on the Conservation
of Atlantic Marine Living Resources
(Greenpeace International)
THE CONVENTION ON the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
(CCAMLR) was established to sustainably manage Southern Ocean fisheries.
It came into force in 1982 when the vulnerability of the Southern Ocean
became too obvious to ignore. While the objectives of CCAMLR are good,
it has proven to be an ineffective body to protect the Southern Ocean......
Albatross: At the Edge
(Greenpeace International)
CURENT SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE reveals that mortality due to longlining is
the single most serious threat to albatross populations.
Antarctica and Southern Ocean Biodiversity
(Greenpeace International)
VERY LITTLE IS KNOWN about how the decimation of the toothfish by pirate
vessels will effect the delicately balanced Southern Ocean ecosystem.
Factory Fishing and Flags of Convenience
(Greenpeace International)
THEIR SHEAR SIZE AND SOPHISTICATED FISHING TECHNOLOGIES enable them
to remain at sea for months, to engage in unregulated fishing on the high
seas, to roam as far as the Southern Ocean to pirate fish, or to illegally
poach in the waters of other countries.
Frightening Facts: The Consequences of
Overfishing and Pirate Fishing
(Greenpeace International)
FISHING GROUNDS ARE IN SERIOUS DECLINE. Many of the world's marine
fish stocks are fully-exploited, over-exploited, depleted or slowly recovering.
Species of birds are facing extinction.
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